{"id":49062,"date":"2019-06-22T13:12:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T17:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=49062"},"modified":"2019-06-22T14:24:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T18:24:17","slug":"prompt-2-places-we-cannot-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/prompt-2-places-we-cannot-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt 2:  places we cannot name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>places we cannot name<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I am taught<\/p>\n<p>we are all one.<\/p>\n<p>I read the wind with my fingers to soil &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>could hear incantations of freedom<\/p>\n<p>in the whisper of poplar dancing leaves forced into jigging<\/p>\n<p>by gale-force Prairie winds<\/p>\n<p>like those dancers in enchanted shoes forced to gyrate to death.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Everyday holds transformation<\/p>\n<p>big and small<\/p>\n<p>so that tincture<\/p>\n<p>powder<\/p>\n<p>or incantations<\/p>\n<p>need not appear before breaking dawn<\/p>\n<p>or remembrances of how to love in forgiveness:<\/p>\n<p>people<\/p>\n<p>lives<\/p>\n<p>pieces of ourselves we have hated.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My Ancestors would have seen this as life;<\/p>\n<p>now we long for it as something from the places we go we cannot name.<\/p>\n<p>(c) r. l. elke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>places we cannot name I am taught we are all one. I read the wind with my fingers to soil &#8211; could hear incantations of freedom in the whisper of poplar dancing leaves forced into jigging by gale-force Prairie winds like those dancers in enchanted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,12,2114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-musings","category-official-marathon-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49147,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49062\/revisions\/49147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}